It's a holy war. Like it or not. Christians have been under seige, under attack by al qaeda and pious Muslims groups. There are no Jews in Iraq - the Iraqi constitution forbids it. Want to see what the global jihad looks like, look at Iraq.

March 13 (Bloomberg) -- A Chaldean Catholic archbishop
kidnapped in northern Iraq last month has been found dead, the
information service of the Italian bishops' conference said.

The archbishop of Mosul, Paulos Faraj Rahho, was abducted on
Feb. 29, the SIR service said. Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-
Maliki had called for the release of the archbishop.

``Monsignor Rahho is dead. We found him lifeless near Mosul.
His abductors buried him,'' SIR cited the auxiliary bishop of
Baghdad, Shlemon Warduni, as saying.

Chaldean Catholics make up the largest community of
Christians in Iraq, Agence France-Presse said. There were as many
as 800,000 in the country before the U.S.-led invasion in March
2003, though many have been killed or kidnapped by Sunni and
Shiite Islamists and criminal gangs since then, the news service
said.

Pope Benedict XVI was ``deeply saddened'' by news of the
death of the archbishop of Mosul, a Vatican spokesman told
reporters today in Rome

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IRAQ ARCHBISHOP MURDERED BY iSLAMIC JIHAD

It's a holy war. Like it or not. Christians have been under seige, under attack by al qaeda and pious Muslims groups. There are no Jews in Iraq - the Iraqi constitution forbids it. Want to see what the global jihad looks like, look at Iraq.

March 13 (Bloomberg) -- A Chaldean Catholic archbishop
kidnapped in northern Iraq last month has been found dead, the
information service of the Italian bishops' conference said.

The archbishop of Mosul, Paulos Faraj Rahho, was abducted on
Feb. 29, the SIR service said. Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-
Maliki had called for the release of the archbishop.

``Monsignor Rahho is dead. We found him lifeless near Mosul.
His abductors buried him,'' SIR cited the auxiliary bishop of
Baghdad, Shlemon Warduni, as saying.

Chaldean Catholics make up the largest community of
Christians in Iraq, Agence France-Presse said. There were as many
as 800,000 in the country before the U.S.-led invasion in March
2003, though many have been killed or kidnapped by Sunni and
Shiite Islamists and criminal gangs since then, the news service
said.

Pope Benedict XVI was ``deeply saddened'' by news of the
death of the archbishop of Mosul, a Vatican spokesman told
reporters today in Rome